White papers on each workshop are available below; see also the Cyberlearning Community Report.
NSF challenged interdisciplinary science and engineering teams to produce plans for developing forward-looking, highly adaptable, distributed digital environments that can personalize learning for diverse learners in collaborative settings. This challenge was issued in a DCL for synthesis and design workshops that funded the workshops below.
CIRCL hosted a Summit for workshop leaders on June 6, 2019 to collaboratively synthesize findings and recommendations and plan final white papers. The report Next Generation Challenges for Advanced Learning Technology: Emerging Directions from the Workshop Leaders Summit provides an overview.
White papers and slides by workshop leaders are available below, or see all slides from the Workshop Leaders Summit (PDF).
| Workshop Title | Abstract | Date & Location | PI name and email | Resources |
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Designing Scalable Advanced Learning Ecosystems |
Building on successful online education programs that have offered Master’s degrees in computer science and analytics, Georgia Tech hosted a workshop for higher education administrators and researchers to create educational experiences that can be scaled to growing populations of students while providing the personalized attention that has typically been the domain of unscalable individual, face-to-face teaching and advising. Read more… |
Nov. 29-30, 2018 |
Stephen W. Harmon |
White Paper (PDF) and Appendix (PDF) Slides (PDF) |
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Designing STEM learning environments for individuals with disabilities |
The workshop was grounded on four research questions: (1) What challenges do learners with different types of disabilities face in using current and emerging digital learning tools and engaging in online learning activities? (2) How do current digital learning research and practices contribute to the marginalization of individuals with disabilities? (3) What advances in digital learning design are required to support multi-modal learning and engagement that is fully accessible to and usable by students with disabilities? (4) What specific actions can digital learning researchers, funding agencies, educators, and other stakeholders take to systematically address issues with respect to disabilities? Read more… |
January 15-18, 2019 |
Sheryl Burgstahler |
White Paper (PDF) Slides (PDF) |
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Principles for the design of digitally-distributed, studio-based STEM learning environments |
This workshop brought together a community of collaborators from multiple stakeholder groups including academia, public libraries, museums, community based organizations, non-profits, media makers and distribution channels, and educators within and beyond K-12 schools. Led by the University of Arizona, and held at Biosphere 2, an international research facility, participants engaged in activities that invite experimentation with distributed learning technologies to examine ways to adapt learning to the changing technological landscape and create robust, dynamic online learning environments. Read more… |
February 25-28, 2019 |
Jill Castek |
White Paper (PDF) Slides (PDF) |
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Weaving the Fabric of Adaptive STEM Learning Environments Across Domains and Settings |
The goal of this workshop was to articulate a transformative vision of future STEM learning for diverse learners across domains and settings. It forged a nexus among the emerging (a) sciences of learning, (b) assessment, and (c) big data to formulate frameworks and tools for designing STEM learning environments. Read more… |
March 14-15, 2019 |
Roy Pea |
White Paper (PDF) Slides (PDF) |
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Research Priorities in Learning Analytics |
The workshop brought together interdisciplinary experts to articulate the state-of-the-art and propose research priorities for learning analytics in the coming decade. A central theme was to explore new ways to use powerful tools in data science (machine learning, social network analysis, analytics and visualization of complex data, temporal, multi-scale and statistical models, integration of heterogeneous data, data scrubbing, wrangling and provenance tracking, data privacy and cybersecurity) to define competence, measure it, and build it using a rich array of new approaches to study learning. Read more… |
March 18-19, 2019 |
Stephanie Teasley |
White Paper (PDF) Slides (PDF) |
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Digital Science and Data Analytic Learning Environments at Small Liberal Arts Institutions |
This project convened a workshop to create blueprint designs of next generation of digital learning environments to answer the question: How can science, technology, and mathematics digital learning environments be designed to enhance the digital science and data analytic skill competencies of learners at small liberal arts institutions of higher education? Read more… |
March 29-30, 2019 |
John Symms |
White Paper (PDF) Slides (PDF) |
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Digitally-Mediated Team Learning |
This workshop aimed to advance the utilization and efficacy of next-generation learning architectures through a focus on instructional technologies that facilitate digitally-mediated team-based learning. Interdisciplinary science and engineering researchers, developers, and educators identified near-term and future research directions to facilitate adaptable digital environments for highly-effective, rewarding, and scalable team-based learning. Read more… |
March 31-April 2, 2019 |
Ronald DeMara |
White Paper (PDF) Slides (PDF) |
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Distributed Collaboration in STEM-Rich Project-Based Learning |
This project convened a synthesis and design workshop on next generation STEM learning, envisioning a two-tier timeline that looks three years and then ten years into the future. One primary workshop topic involved design considerations for “boundary-crossing” project-based learning, by which students (middle school through college) collaborate on challenging STEM projects while they reside in different national, economic, cultural, and academic settings. Read more… |
May 13-14, 2019 |
Eric Hamilton |
White Paper (PDF) Slides (PDF) |
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The Future of Embodied Design for Mathematical Imagination and Cognition |
This workshop brought research scholars and classroom teachers together to achieve four central objectives: (1) synthesize current research into a coherent theory of embodied mathematical imagination and cognition, (2) identify the most promising opportunities for conceptual and methodological integration, (3) curate a set of evidence-based design principles for enhancing mathematics education and broadening participation in all STEM fields, and (4) articulate a future research agenda in the growing area of embodied cognition. Read more… |
May 20-22, 2019 |
Mitchell Nathan |
White Paper (PDF) Slides (PDF) |
In addition, the following two CIRCL-funded working groups presented findings at the Summit:
| Workshop Title | Abstract | Date & Location | Lead and email | Resources |
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CIRCL Workshop: Instrumented Learning Spaces |
More than a dozen interdisciplinary scholars participated in a CIRCL Working Group on Instrumented Learning Spaces at the NYU Tandon Makerspace in Brooklyn. Working in small groups, participants designed and prototyped a cup and saucer—one of which was made entirely out of food—in the Makerspace. Skeleton tracking, multi-channel audio, and radio-located positions were recorded throughout to produce a rich, multimodal dataset which will be annotated and made public. Read more… |
February 8-9, 2019 |
Yoav Bergner |
Report (PDF) Slides (PDF) |
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CIRCL Workshop: Robots, Young Children, & Alternative Input Methods |
This two-day invitational workshop brought together researchers in the learning sciences, computer science, engineering, and psychology to review the current status of research on children-robot interaction, discuss theoretical and technical aspects that can support the research, and explore the potential for future research in the area from the social, emotional and cognitive, and educational perspectives. Read more… |
January 24-26, 2018 |
Yanghee Kim |
Report (PDF) Slides (PDF) |